If You Want To Give The Ultimate Personal Gift You Need To
Plan Ahead.

Start with your own collection of photos.
Then look at photos your parents have, ask your brothers and sister if
they have any special photos that you may restore and copy. These type of gifts take time and
planning. The person you give it to will know
that. Be ready for those birthdays and anniversaries through the year, that are coming up sooner than you think.
Any ordinary photo can be made special and given for whatever reason
on any off season to lift someone's spirits.

When
looking at photographs use your imagination on the possibilities to bring
life back into tired old photos. E-mail us a photo and we can tell
you if we could improve it. Look at our Photo Gallery Categories to
see photos similar to what you have. You may a have photo that was
not a great shot but could be cropped and fixed to look like a
professional portrait

After
fixing his collar and cropping it for a professional looking composition, we
turned this 5x7 color photograph into black and white portrait by enlarging it
to an 8 x 10

Decorating
with photos is another custom gift option. How many times have
you been attracted to a decorative frame and the photo you think of just will
not fit the frame or is too damaged to want to display.

These are National holidays but
don't forget those personal ones! Birthdays and Anniversaries.

Valentine's day
doesn't have to be about chocolate, roses and balloons, attach a
sentimental photo! That says you planned ahead. The time to express your
love to anyone you love, not only your romantic love. Don't forget your
family.

Create a small scrapbook
with a theme thanking them for everything they do to show their love for
you with photos throughout the year. If you don't have these photos
start catching your loved ones doing the things you love about them,
throughout the year and get busy scrapbooking for next Valentine's Day,
birthday or Christmas.

Mother's Day !

Give
mom a restored photo of her mom.... A
photo of dad that she had tucked away and you restored or enlarged.
Or
a collage of her grand children

If
you or your mom are into genealogy, find her photos of her mother
and yourself and your daughter and create this beautiful
generational collage. You can do the same for dad.

You
purchase the locket, supply us with the images and Photos Made Perfect will
restore and install the photos in the locket. You have created an heirloom
to pass down to the next generation. It's only $65.00 per locket. We
understand having your photos installed into the locket may cost more than the
locket itself, this cannot be helped. It takes time to do but well worth it to
have the photo be reduced to the best size for that locket to look it's best.

This photo was restored and colorized then
made into a 30 piece puzzle. What a fantastic surprise to receive a
gift box with no image on it that turns out to be a puzzle with a vintage photo of
grandma!

After it's put together you can secure it to a
foam board and frame it!

So you fell in love with a
picture frame and took it home only to find that the photo you thought
might fit, did not. You have two options, take it back or come
see us to fit everyone of the photos you wanted for your theme. Ever notice how nice the frame looks with the store
photograph in it? and when you get home and put your photos in it,
your not so in love any more? It's because your
photos were not designed for that space. Next
time you find a photograph frame to die for, go ahead and buy it and
call us. Resizing cost the same as scanning, see estimate page.

Chinese silk screen replica, front
(left image)..

If you thought about just cutting the original
photo...think again. Not a good idea. What happens when the frame
gets tired looking or you change your decorating theme? Never cut your
originals, they should always be stored in an acid free environment.

We
receive so many request for this service that it's worth saying...we
do not provide this service.

First
and foremost ask who ever you contact if they do the work on site or ship
them out. Most
people don't want their precious memories shipped out anywhere. Finding
someone local is no easy task. If
you are interested in having your photos transferred onto CD or video, transferring
your video to DVD or transferring an 8mm film to DVD you may want to try some of
these below. For your convenience we have listed links to these service
from different states just to get you going.

We
are not responsible for the quality of service from any of the services
listed here. We only
list these people as possibilities. Use at your discretion, if
you have a problem with them let us know. If you used someone else
and you loved them let us know we will list them here, thanks.

veryone
has a story to tell. StoryArts helps people collect, organize, and celebrate
life's stories. We would be honored to help you preserve and pass on the stories
of your family, friends, organization or community to future generations.

StoryArts is a nonprofit consortium of community
artists and custom publishers, helping people shape hard-earned daily life
events into stories, which recognize and maintain meaning in life, to be shared
with their families, friends and communities. We believe that honoring,
archiving, and sharing life's stories is vitally important to building a strong,
healthy society.

Saves
space! 9-12 photos depending on the photos, great gift for the office
desk.

Black background

We not only restored this photo we also changed the order of the photos to put the one
of the baby smiling in the
middle.

The yellow paper was
a pretty speckle but you can't see
it here because it was pastel.

Make a generational
grouping!

Mother, grandmother, great
grandmother etc. likewise with fathers. A life progression with one individual
is also popular.

Father circa 1930

Son circa 2003

In this first image, a father was playing a joke by
posing for this photo appearing like a gangster with a phony scar and eerie
lighting. The second was deliberate attempt to capture the fathers image
of some 30 years ago by posing in the same manner. We then added the
father to the background for an amazing look at like comparison and memory of
him and his sense of humor.

Father
and Son

What
two photos of yours

would you like to see together?

The image of mother behind them in the 1900s
didn't have to be a quality photo. This one was cut out from a
collage on poor paper, you can see part of another photo at the bottom.
Since it was going to be faded out a bit anyway giving it a heavenly
appearance.

These two Sisters enjoy this photograph today, taken
from the two photographs, making it twice as special.

Funerals/Wakes/Memorials

It
is at this very delicate time that clients called to say that they need a photograph of
their loved one for their
funeral, wake or memorial. They want to display a portrait photo of
them and are faced with the following problems.

The
problem was that they couldn't find a nice enough image suitable for
this occasion.

Or
they couldn't find a image of that person alone.

They needed it
within a next few days.

They
have a nice photo but it was damaged or too small.

Every
case is different but in most cases, what we were able to do is to isolate
the person and remove people or the background. We can enlarge an image to
be used on an easel next to the casket or a size good to be on a table top
and still be seen from the back row ot the attendees. Our usual turn-around time is 8-10 business days, but
in this case, we do our best to have it done when you need it which is usually in 3 days.
After the service the image becomes a very heart felt appropriate gift for next
of kin.